America

• 29 November 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The voice of the Church at UN Meeting on climate change Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations Conference on climate change opens today in Cancun, Mexico. The meeting is held every year - this is number 16 - with the aim of reaching a broad consensus among all count ...
• 27 November 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Peace is necessary to live in Rio de Janeiro”: appeal by Archbishop Tempesta Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Orani João Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro, before the recent clashes in the city, pleaded to “overcome evil with good” and this means “promoting peace”. This is “the way ...
• 27 November 2010
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - A Catholic radio network for Central America Alajuela (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Central America decided, at the Plenary Assembly held in Costa Rica, to create a network of Catholic radio stations in the region. “There are 60 radio stations broadcasting in ...
• 26 November 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Cholera epidemic unstoppable: alarm from the Camillian mission Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - “The emergence of cholera is uncontrollable. A few days before the election there it is shooting up in the streets, among the corpses strewn everywhere. The people, having no alternativ ...
• 26 November 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Solidarity of the local Church with the Archbishop of Cochabamba, threatened following his report of drug trafficking Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - “As the Church in Bolivia we stand together with Bishop Tito, because he is a Bishop who identifies with his people, aware of the evils that afflict them through his presence and contact wi ...
• 26 November 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Election details Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - About 4.7 million Haitians have the right to vote and to choose a successor to President René Preval along with 11 senators and 99 deputies. The presidential candidate of Haiti, Mirlande ...
• 26 November 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 3rd CIMI Seminar concludes on “Climate change and major projects” Luziânia (Agenzia Fides) - The Third National Seminar on the Formation of the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), which met in Luziânia (GO) from Monday, 22, on “Climate change and major projects”, concluded yest ...
• 26 November 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - For Sunday's elections, the Bishops suggest to “choose leaders who will work for all the population” Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – “On Sunday the 28 elections will go ahead,” said the current President of Haiti, René Preval. On the eve of the presidential and legislative elections, the population of Haiti is e ...
• 25 November 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Promote freedom of religion and conscience in all its forms, individual and collective”: Religious Freedom Day Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Thursday, 25 November, the Argentine Council for Religious Freedom (CALIR), under the auspices of the Directorate General for Religious Affairs of the City of Buenos Aires' Governmen ...
• 25 November 2010
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - New website for Caritas Guatemala, always in aid of the poorest Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – Caritas Guatemala announces with happiness and enthusiasm the release of its new website: www.caritasguatemala.org. The page has a number of changes to it due to issues noted by a Worki ...
• 24 November 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops' comments on public education laws La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Episcopal Conference (CEB) has presented six observations on the draft education bill (the bill was tabled by Avelino Sinani and Elizardo Perez), as reported by Limbert Ayarde, execu ...
• 24 November 2010
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Year for Life: a Vigil for Life in all dioceses, to join the Pope Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – In support of the Vigil for Life called by the Pope, and the Year for Life organized by the Episcopal Conference of Argentina, Saturday, 27 November in all dioceses, parishes and chapels ...
• 24 November 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - From the Amazon Forest to Sierra Leone, Tapauá assists Kamabai mission Tapauá (Agenzia Fides) – From 2006, when a group of lay Catholics in the city of Tapauà attended a meeting of missionary activities at the headquarters of the mission in Labrea, the parish of Santa Rita de Tapau deci ...
• 23 November 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Yet another priest assassinated in Brazil; from Sao Luis, ordained this September Sao Luis (Agenzia Fides) – Father Bernardo Muniz Rabelo Amaral, aged 28, Assistant Pastor in the city of Humberto de Campos (about 120 km from Maranhão), passed away on the evening of Saturday, 20 November in Sao Luis ...
• 23 November 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Meeting in Lima for 25 years of the Christian Life Movement Lima (Agenzia Fides) – This year celebrates the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Christian Life Movement (CLM), and thousands of people will gather on 27 November at the College of La Recoleta in Lima, Peru's ca ...